India, Feb. 19 -- The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has reportedly asked all the social media platforms, including Meta, Instagram, Google and X, to remove specific content or applications that facilitate users in committing offences under the Telecommunications Act, 2023.

As per ET, the advisory follows reports of certain social media influencers instructing users on how to alter their calling line identification (CLI) while making calls, causing the recipient to see a different number.

"Technically this is tampering of telecommunication identification and called CLI spoofing," the advisory said.

Spoofed calls are fraudulent international calls that appear to originate from Indian mobile numbers.

In October last year, the te...